The terrorist attacks of September 11 have challenged the view that the U.S. economy is on the brink of recovery. This article discusses the effects of the attacks on real GDP taking the Kiel Institute's forecast of September 10 as the baseline scenario. The focus is on assessing the direct...

Weltweite konjunkturelle Auswirkungen von Immobilienkrisen Nils Jannsen Nr. 458 | Oktober 2008 Kieler Diskussionsbeiträge Institut für Weltwirtschaft Kiel Web: www.ifw-kiel.de Nils Jannsen Institut für Weltwirtschaft 24100 Kiel Telefon: +49/431/8814-298 E-Mail:...

There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) and recent empirical evidence on the relative importance of determinants of FDI in developing countries. We show that surprisingly little has changed since...